Wisdom via Melissa

In going through dozens of old shoeboxes filled with old letters and photographs, I found a scrap of paper from December 22, 2008. Melissa said it, however, I'm not sure if it's an original statement or if she was relaying something she read somewhere. I really like it and I'm posting it here so I can throw out the paper. In the recycling bin, of course.

We can't see air, therefore we believe it to be nothing. Fish can't see the water, therefore they conceive it to be nothing, but when we are taken into the water, we recognise it to be something and the fish, when taken into the air realise that water is the essence of its life.